Some data potentially relating to Jimi Hendrix

Some data potentially relating to Jimi Hendrix

John Bjarne Grover

In this article I discussed some advertisements of Vienna. There was more than one of them which could have entailed a potential reference to the name of Jimi Hendrix. In this article I mentioned the hypothesis that there could have been a certain link between the names of Hendrix and Ayo Jardar whom I knew for some weeks (or a few months) in the old town of Fredrikstad in 1979, probably (if not 1978). In the article I added a peculiar mention in the context of the following advertisement which I can elaborate a little on here:

The image

As I mentioned in the article, the woman to the right does in fact resemble Ayo Jardar just a little - and she did in fact once break an ampoule of some fluid which she poured into the kitchen sink and when I asked what it was she said it was cyanide, which in norwegian is 'blå-syre' while 'blås-i-re' means 'blow into it' or 'oh, it doesn't matter' - which means that the photo with text in principle could have referred to this brief event. The man to the left could trivially signify 'gymmy hand-tricks' etc. In those days I took the broken ampoule thrown into the kitchen sink to be a signal that she had been depressed with such thoughts but now she was not so depressed and did not need it any longer. So it could have been sort of 'optimistic'.

Would it at hindsight necessarily have meant that she were an agent - something which could have made potential links to Hendrix somewhat more relevant? Not necessarily - I recall from probably around the same times (although I do not remember the order of these things) that Ingvild Poppe came by one late spring or early summer evening and was very charming and maybe even flirting - but she was married to Thor Poppe and could not take it too far. She had to leave and go home - and the question was if even I had to go home - but it did not come to me following her. However, it could have been that the little event (however vague) could have been a possible background for such a breaking of the cyanide ampoule - which then would not have meant 'agent' but something else.

I had never thoughts of Poppe as being even remotely involved in things - and I would guess they were not either - but when I now look at the texts for Hendrix' first record it is in fact possible to see some traces of this late spring evening story. Ayo Jardar had two sons - Espen and Kim - then age about 10 and 12 or thereabout - while Hendrix' first record (1967) was called "Are You Experienced?" which clearly could be taken to entail a certain potential reference to the names of these two sons. The titles of the songs on this record likewise could be seen to refer to this story with the ampoule and the kitchen sink and this possible alternative explanation with the attractive woman - source for 'lyrics' is on this web page:

Purple Haze
Manic Depression
Hey Joe
Love Or Confusion
May This Be Love
I Don't Live Today - 'blue acid' cp. 'blå-syre' = cyanide
- not so depressed any longer
- hey John, the 'N' is not near
- is this love or what is it?
- could be it is?
- the theory of the cyanide

The alternative 'blås-i-re' = 'blow into it' or 'oh, it doesn't matter - just don't care about it' can be spotted from the beginning of the text to 'Purple haze':

Yeah! Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowing, blowing my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

The interesting question is therefore if even the arrival of Ingvild Poppe could have been contained in this first record. Could be it is possible to read something like that - it is in particular the norwegian word 'ild' for 'fire' which could suggest such an interpretation:

The Wind Cries Mary
Fire
Third Stone From The Sun
Foxey Lady - ingv- cp. 'in kv-inner' = 'in women'
- ild
- p oppe? 'p (is) up'
- 'hot' summer evening

It is in fact possible to spot traces of this brief event in the texts - if it had been preplanned one could think that it was meant that I should follow her home. But the brief event was not really enough for a dramatic cyanide role - if I had followed after her it could perhaps have been.

Anyhow, the theory could be made that the flush-out of the cyanide could have been because of this brief story. However, Ayo Jardar also told me a little event with her son Kim (something which could have signified something about his sexual maturation) which perhaps could have been taken to signify something like 'Kim-posen' (the Kim pouch/bag) - while 'kinn-posen' is that little cavity between the cheek and the teeth wherein one can store such an ampoule.

I dont remember the order of events, but it could in principle have been around the same times that Magne Rudjord asked for my assistance to help carry Hanne Skjefstad's freezer up from the basement where it was stored. We had been up drinking wine in my home and it was very late or rather early in the summer morning that he suggested this. The freezer was not heavy and we carried it up the rather steep stairs from her basement. 'Magen er ud-jord' = 'the stomach is protruding' (or it is 'difficult'). If this freezer-lifting should have been about 'Highway Chile', the following song "Can You See Me?" contains the line "Hear a freight train coming from a thousand miles" which in theory could have been taken to refer to the name 'ESP-en'.

Hendrix's next record (1967) was called "Axis: Bold As Love" - which clearly (including 'x and y' as special and related letters) could be seen to be an inherent reference to the name 'Ayo Jardar'.

For the next record 'Electric ladyland', I notice a potential relevance of the expression 'induksjons-tåpe hopper av selv' - if that is not only a farfetched association. 'Føl[g]e' means 'to follow' (say, if I should have followed Poppe home), while 'følle' is a horse giving birth to a foal. 'Føle' = 'to feel'.

In the center of Fredrikstad there is Kråkerøy bridge which leads over to Kråkerøy - sort of 'Crow Island' - which leads out to Vesterøy with 'The Octogon' school where Ayo Jardar's (ex) husband worked as teacher, I think it was. (They were separated but I think maybe not divorced). The bridge could lift up. Likewise, at the entrance to the Old Town in Fredrikstad where most of these people lived at that time, there is the old-style drawbridge of a similar kind - it could lift up to block the entry to the old fortification town. Nowadays there is a modern road next to it but a long time ago there was probably only this. Apenes (close to Skjefstad) lived on the other side of the canal and hence also the other side of this bridge relative to the Old Town. It is of course possible to see also this 'Kråkerøy' in the title to Hendrix' record "The Cry Of Love" (1971) - supported by the second record that year "Rainbow Bridge".

Once again, beyond the peculiarities mentioned here I have little reason to believe that the persons referred to could have been agents.